The Garden Minute ⏰: Monday 16 October 2023
☀️Good morning Gardeners. Here’s your Monday Garden News Minute.
🌶️Overwintering chilli plants – how to keep your plants alive during winter, according to experts. This is how and when to overwinter chillies for plants bearing an abundance of fruit year after year. Ideal Home.
🌹Brilliant border maintenance – what to do now for next summer’s success. Garden border maintenance in both autumn and spring is mainly about the plants.Summer and early autumn is for dead-heading. Weeding goes on all year round if you have a mild climate. Watering is for dry spells.But in both autumn and spring, it’s time to plant new plants, move plants that are in the wrong place and divide overgrown perennials. The middle-sized garden.
🎃We’ve just grown our own pumpkin. That’s why I know allotments won’t feed the world. Jay Rayner. The Guardian.
❄️A hue and cry: frost is coming. Listen: a hue and cry is being heard along the edge of wind 'it might be frost tonight', 'winter is coming'. This feels a very sudden change in the weather, last weekend was unseasonally warm but today there is an edge to the wind. Blackberry Garden Blog.
✂️Garden plants you should prune in October to ensure flowers grow next year. Daily Record.
🪄Expert's eight simple and cheap gardening tricks as winter looms. A well-maintained garden can be a pleasure whatever the season - but it can also be a chore to get it exactly as you want it, especially without spending a fortune. Bristol Live.
🥕Anna Greenland, organic grower for Michelin chefs, visited a Portuguese garden-to-table restaurant. Instagram.
In other news:
🥕Secrets of Low-Maintenance High-Impact Garden Designs. If you're looking for a low-maintenance garden design, you may be a bit underwhelmed by the usual choices given to you. Blobs of evergreen and lots of lacklustre plants are sometimes the only offering. Garden Ninja.
🌿How to stop weeds growing in block paving - 5 quick and easy ways to keep your driveway weed-free. Mother Nature is a cruel mistress. And while we wish we could just enjoy the sights, smells, and blooms of our plants and our outdoor space, most of us spend our weekends working on how to stop weeds from growing in block paving, instead. Ideal Home.
🎄Explore the light fantastic at RHS Rosemoor Glow 2023. Magical and popular light trail and entertainment event returns to RHS Garden Rosemoor in Great Torrington for the festive season. North Devon Gazette.
🏡Grow your garden and make a ‘better environment’ for plants with this budget hack. A seasoned TikTok gardener explains that by stopping by a few key locations, you can obtain all the tools you need to build and grow your garden. The Sun.
🪴Planning spring colours on the roof terrace. The change of season gives us the excuse to rethink some of the pots and containers on the patio. The Guardian.
👪Family-run garden centre and tea room to grow after extension plan granted. Windlebridge Garden Nursery, in Guisborough, is aiming to extend its product range, while its tea rooms will also increase in size. Teesside Live.
🌷Garden Offer - FREE bulbs at the Secret Gardening Club.
🪴The Best Tips for a Stunning Monstera. The Monstera, also known as the Swiss cheese plant, is a beautiful and popular houseplant that has captured the hearts of more and more gardeners in recent years. Boma Garden Centre Blog.
🏡Monty Don urges gardeners to follow lawn-mowing trick this autumn to make 'black gold'. This easy trick encouraged by Monty Don will provide you with the best soil conditioner and compost your garden has ever had, and it will cost you absolutely nothing. Daily Mirror.
Aubergine fritters recipe – using up a glut! MandyCanUDigIt Blog.
❌Alan Titchmarsh: ‘Cancel culture is terrifying - it makes you very careful about what you say’. The nation’s favourite gardener finds himself increasingly at odds with the modern social-media-driven world around him. Daily Telegraph. Subscription required.
🐆Homeowner discovers ‘very rare’ predator lurking in their garden: ‘This may be a newsworthy sighting’. Yahoo News.
📈 The most-clicked/tapped links from the last newsletter:
Monty Don urges gardeners to 'invest' in two essential items before first frost hits this weekend.
The 1 Pruning Mistake That Can Ruin Your Hydrangeas This Autumn.
27 Most Popular Perennial Flowers and Plants for Your Garden.
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